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I decided to add more ideas that I thought of! All credit for AU idea goes to @fflaminlo.
All four of them love cookie cats with an undying passion. When sunstone, rainbow, and smoky discovered they were going to stop being made, they all silently mourned together before going to buy the rest that they could find. When Steven sings the cookie cat jingle, they want to join in, but decide to just let him sing. When Stevens eating the cookie cat that helps him discover his powers, rainbow, sunstone, and smoky are all eating a cookie cat too.
Unlike Pearl, rainbow loves eating, he doesn’t eat as much as cannon amethyst, but he does have breakfast, lunch, and dinner along with everyone else, along with the occasional snack. Rose is the one that taught him about eating. Unlike cannon, before steven gets his powers, he does end up going to school. This means he only really goes on missions on the weekends, but he doesn’t mind. All three gems and Greg do their best to help steven with his schoolwork. They all agreed that for the sake of Stevens school life, that Greg be the one to drive steven to school. After a while, rainbow started flying steven to school sometimes. rainbow 2.0 was still devoted to rose/pink, but not in a love kind of way. He wasn’t as loyal as Pearl, but still greatly cared for rose/pink as a great friend, and was willing to help her with the rebellion.
when rose first taught sunstone about eating, sunstone was prone to only eating sweets cause she liked how they tasted. Rose and Greg were the ones that taught her about eating a balanced diet, and how she would discover more foods that she liked that way. They were right, and now sunstone teaches about a balanced diet to Steven. Sunstone still eats a balanced diet to this day, and greatly enjoys it over just eating sweets. She makes sure the others maintain a balanced diet as well, especially steven, due to him being half human and her technically being his step-mom.
they were a little more excepting of steven and tried to be more involved in a positive when he was a baby, but they were overall still pretty sad.
They didn’t kidnap him. Rainbow had thought about it, but sunstone talked him out of it. She was worried steven would remember it and it would make him not trust them. Rose would definitely have been disappointed if they did that it was something she wouldn’t have wanted. She would have wanted them to help Greg raise steven, not take him away. Also sunstone genuinely wanted to care for Steven and knew the others did too, they were just grieving.
I decided to expand upon an AU @fflaminlo made about Sunstone, Rainbow 2.0, and smoky Quartz being stevens parents. (Please check out their art for it, it explains it a lot better.)
So my idea is that the three of them were created to be special homeworld experiments to see if they could create a strong singular gem person with multiple gemstones. Only these three were successfully created. Sunstone was created to be part of blue diamonds court. Once Blue became displeased with sunstone and threatened to lock her away and rejuvenate her, sunstone ran away to earth.
It was decided that Rainbow 2.0 should go to pink diamond, cause they thought she deserved something special. Rainbow 2.0 replaces pink Pearl when pink Pearl is broken.
Smoky Quartz was the result of the diamonds trying to see if one could be created on earth. They considered them a failure when they didn’t come out. But they did pop out eventually, just later and smaller than they were supposed to.
Unlike the cannon crystal gems, these three hang out a lot more before he got his powers. When he did get his powers and he could control them properly, they started letting him come on more missions, as long as they were safe for him. They always give him a goodbye hug if he has to stay behind.
They tell him more things and hide less. Though they still keep secrets and don’t tell him super serious or really bad stuff. Steven still learns that rose was pink diamond the same way, though.
When they find out about rose being pink, smoky and rainbow react similarly to how amethyst and Pearl did. Sunstone, on the other hand, runs off to the fountain in a rage. Instead of a snow storm, sunstone is sitting with her feet in the water, her rage causing it to bubble. Rainbow and Steven go to calm her down and bring her home.
While they are doing that, smoky is sulking in stevens bed. Once rainbow, steven, and sunstone come back, they all work together to cheer smoky up. bismuth comes back after the four of them have a talk about rose being pink. They decide that she has the right to know. All four of them talk her about it.
The way steven gets cat Steven is similar, but instead of steven and sunstones adventure being about future vision, it’s about sunstone wanting to be better, for herself, for rainbow and smoky, and especially for Steven. Steven comforts her by saying that changing is fine, but she shouldn’t push and/or force herself to be how she isn’t. (@fflaminlo, if you see this tell me what you think. If you want to, that is.)